The World Employment Confederation-Europe is the voice of the employment industry at European level, representing labour market enablers in 29 countries and 7 of the largest international workforce solutions companies.

Structure & constitution

The World Employment Confederation-Europe has been established as a non-profit association under Belgian law in 2005 (under the name of Eurociett). The constitution establishes the General Assembly, Board, President and standing committees as main bodies of the confederation. The Secretariat was established in 2005 to support the confederation. See below for a description of these bodies.

General Assembly

The General Assembly has been set up as highest decision-making body, in which each Member is represented and has the right to vote. The General Assembly may delegate its power to the Board and/or Secretariat. The General Assembly defines the strategy and priorities of the confederation, reviews the progress achieved with regard to the main public affairs priorities, sets up the confederations budget and membership contribution table, elects the Board, decides on membership applications and other membership issues, amends the constitution if required and reviews the activities of the Board.

Board

The Board is composed of 13 members, which are elected by the General Assembly. The Board is in charge of defining the strategy of the World Employment Confederation-Europe and to monitor its implementation. This includes especially endorsing annual action plans prepared by the Secretariat, the implementation of the budget and the financial management, the follow-up of applications and membership issues and the invitation to ordinary and extraordinary General Assemblies.

Standing Committees

The Public Affairs Committee and the Economic Affairs Committee have been established as standing committees of the World Employment Confederation-Europe, furthermore a non-standing committee on EU Social Dialogue has been set up.

The Public Affairs Committee gathers around 20 members and aims at planning, coordinating and implementing the Confederation's public affairs and advocay activities decided by the Board. The Public Affairs Committee serves as a standing committee to agree on position papers and lobbying actions. The Public Affairs Committee meets on a quarterly basis.

The Economic Affairs Committee serves as platform to exchange information between Members on recent research and statistics on the employment industry. The Committee coordinates the research and data-gathering activities, supports the Secretariat in the design, implementation and follow up of projects in the area of research and statistics and maintains close contacts with other research institutions and bodies [Eurostat, Adapt, IZA, national universities, etc].

Comprised of 15 members, the Economic Affairs Committee meets four times a year.

Head Office

The Head Office of the World Employment Confederation-Europe, which has been established in Brussels in 2005, aims at being the focal point of the employment industry in Europe. Its main tasks are as follow:

To coordinate and implement the public and corporate affairs activities and public relations actions of the World Employment Confederation-Europe, as agreed by the General Assembly and Board.

To facilitate the contact and information exchange between Members and to support them in their activities.

To respond to inquiries and demands from European and international stakeholders linked to the private employment services industry.

To support research on the employment industry and to coordinate research and data-gathering activities between Members.

To facilitate best-practice sharing between the members of the World Employment Confederation-Europe.

To inform the Members about the latest developments in European public affairs and the European private employment services industry by issuing regular newsletters and reports.